As a fire rages on, businesses move their stock out into the street in Seward, Alaska. Aug. 1935. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 4 1/2" x 2 3/4".
Title taken from caption. View of expedition members aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa awaiting permission to land at Bering Island. Alan May is third from the left. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's...
Title taken from caption. A man poses by a fish-drying rack (?) and possibly a clothesline near the village of Attu. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from verso. View of homemade whiskey distillery with bottles and other containers in front of log structure in Alaska. From front: "Not in Kentucky but Alaska! Camp Moonshine." 1920's? Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 3/8" x 5 3/8".
Title taken from verso. View of J.C. Penney store and other businesses damaged in March 27, 1964 earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska, with cars crushed under debris and pedestrians in background. Signs on buildings in background read: "Craig's" and...
Title taken from verso. View of trucks crossing the melting Yukon River ice bridge during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. April 17, 1975. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10 1/8".
Title taken from verso. Aerial view of still-smoldering fire from July 8, 1977 at Trans-Alaska Pipeline Pump Station 8, south of Fairbanks in Interior Alaska. July 9, 1977. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. View of damage to pipeline insulation after July 8, 1977 fire at Trans-Alaska Pipeline Pump Station 8 south of Fairbanks in Interior Alaska, with truck in left background. July 9, 1977. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon....
Cache of baleen, man (trader?) standing. Probably autumn, because the water is shallow, and there is no ice. In the spring, the whale would be pulled up by its tail, and in the fall it would be pulled up by its head.